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Dueling committees in the House of Representatives are drafting their own cybersecurity bills, reflecting a legislative turf war that has complicated political efforts to address the growing number of computer attacks, including some believed to originate in foreign countries. Read More »

Islamic State supporters used at least 46,000 Twitter accounts in late 2014, communicating in English roughly 20% of the time, according to a new analysis of the militant group’s use of social media. Read More »

A senior U.S. intelligence official said Tuesday the Obama administration had no backup plan if Congress didn’t reauthorize a law allowing the bulk collection of telephone records by its June expiration date.

A Senate committee is releasing a report Tuesday on the Central Intelligence Agency’s detention and interrogation program for foreign terrorism suspects. Here are questions and answers about the report. Read More »

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on Tuesday considered how to balance federal whistleblower protections against national security in a case involving an air marshal who was fired for disclosing reduced protection on Las Vegas flights despite a potential terrorist threat. Read More »

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Edward Snowden appears on the cover of the September issue of Wired, clutching an American flag. Writer James Bamford traveled to Russia to interview Mr. Snowden, in a piece called “The Most Wanted Man in the World.” Here are some highlights:

He’d volunteer for prison, if …: Mr. Snowden tells Wired he cares more about the U.S. than what happens to him, but says “we can’t allow the law to become a political weapon or agree to scare people away from standing up for their rights, no matter how good the deal.” Read More »

A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled the Obama administration violated the legal rights of a Chinese-owned company when it prohibited a wind-farm transaction in the U.S. on national security grounds.

At issue was President Barack Obama’s decision in 2012 to block a U.S. acquisition involving China’s Ralls Corp, which sought to buy four wind-farm projects located in or near a naval-weapons training facility in Oregon. Read More »

A: The Obama administration said it would fundamentally change how it searches Americans’ phone records when looking for terror suspects. Since 9/11, the government has scooped up the basic details of millions of phone calls to build a searchable database.

Q: What does the president want to do instead?

A: The president now proposes to end the government warehousing of that data, and instead only search records held by phone companies when approved by a judge, or without a court order in the event of an emergency. Read More »

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